Star Walk - Explore the Sky
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Stars and Constellations Guide

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Description

Star Walk is the most beautiful stargazing app you’ve ever seen on a mobile device. It will become your interactive astro guide to the night sky, following your every movement in real-time and allowing you to explore over 200, 000 celestial bodies with extensive information about stars and constellations that you find.

***Over 10 million users! Winner of Apple Design Award 2010***

“Star Walk is a remarkably in-depth and detailed astronomy app. There's so much you can do with this app” - Common sense media

“Star Walk is the best stargazing application I have come across for the iPhone. Many of the features found within the application cannot be found in any others! This is one of the best developed and executed applications I have seen to hit the app store.” - iMore

“It’s brilliant, and if you’re ever somewhere with a clear sky and no light pollution, it’s a revelation. It’s beautifully designed and makes clever use of the available technology. I’m fascinated by astronomy, but even if you’re not, give this a go.”

Star Walk now works with Apple Watch to alert you of upcoming astronomical events.

Key features:

- Night sky map with thousands of stars, constellations and other sky objects- Real-time celestial bodies tracking- Augmented reality view- Night mode- Extensive information about celestial bodies- The ability to travel in time with “Time machine”- Astronomical calendar with various celestial events- Stunning space pictures in “Picture of the Day”- A wealth of information on the amount of daylight, phase of the moon, and visibility of the planets in “Sky Live”

• Launch the app and point your device at the night sky, you'll see the stars, planets, satellites, and constellations in their proper place from your location. As you move your device, the star map updates in real time.

• Every object you tap has an (i) next to its name, tap it to access information.

• A scale on right is the “Time machine”, slide it to explore the map of the night sky of tomorrow or years ago.

• A calendar of celestial events will make sure you never miss anything interesting.

• Tap Augmented Reality icon in the upper right corner to add the image from your camera to your sky view.

• Use Night Mode to go easy on your eyes and preserve night vision when exploring the Universe.

Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase, and your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Subscription may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable.

Terms of use: http://vitotechnology.com/terms-of-use.html

Start your stargazing experience now!

What’s New

Version History

7.3.1

Jan 2, 2019

Enjoy the latest version of Star Walk with:• updated astronomical calendar (a lot of celestial events for the year 2019 added)• full support for the newest Apple devices• minor bug fixes and performance improvements

Wishing you all the best for the coming year, with love and positive thoughts.

Gratefully yours,Vito Technology Team.

7.3.0

Jul 30, 2018

Dear Stargazers!

We update the app regularly to make it better for you. This version of Star Walk includes​ performance optimizations and minor bug fixes as well as compatibility with iPad.

We are looking forward to receiving your feedback, comments or suggestions for improvement via email to support@vitotechnology.com. Thank you for being our users!

Yours, Vito Technology team.

7.2.5

Mar 23, 2018

Minor bug fixes

7.2.4

Dec 22, 2017

+NEW! iPhone X, 8 and 8 Plus full support! The app is updated for the new devices and can be used safely+Fixed Search +Fixed minor bugs

7.2.3

Mar 20, 2017

Minor bug fixes

7.2.2

Jan 24, 2017

Minor bug fixes

7.2.1

Nov 16, 2016

New:- iOS 10 support- Added new meteor showers- Added short facts in Info for main objects- New Calendar events

7.2.0

This new update brings you Calendar of astronomy events for 2016, with automatic alerts for global events, ISS passes and iridium flares.

Star Walk now supports native resolution of iPad Pro. We have also fixed iPhone 6s/6s+ object selection bug and few other bugs connected with stable work of the app.

We know we can be sometimes slow with our updates although your supportive reviews and letters give us motivation to move forwards. Please feel free to share the love on the App Store/Facebook/Twitter. We promise we read every note and will do our best to be responsive.

Truthfully yours,Team Star Walk

7.1.0

Apr 20, 2015

Star Walk now works with Apple Watch to alert you of upcoming astronomical events and anything interesting going on in the sky. Schedule a reminder for the next spectacular meteor shower, the International Space Station flying over your location, or catch the perfect night for astrophotography.

— Calendar of upcoming astronomical events— Current phase of the moon— Time of sunset and sunrise— Alerts

Star Walk on Apple Watch works together with your iPhone — you can schedule an alert on any device and it will appear on your Apple Watch just in the right time.

7.0.4

Nov 5, 2014

- Optimized for iOS 8 and iPhone 6/6+- New widget: time of sunset and sunrise, current moon phase, and list of upcoming astronomy events on your Today screen

To add the new widget, just head to the Today view in your notification center and click Edit. Never miss a cool eclipse again!

7.0.3

Dec 2, 2013

1) It is likely that ISON is not going to be the comet of the century. Nevertheless, we decided not to remove it from the app.

2) You can now turn on Picture caching in the Star Walk Settings. When caching is ON it will download the content only once and store it on your device. However when caching is OFF it will save you some space on your device.

3) Minor adjustments in texts and tables in Info to make them more readable.

4) Chinese localization improved.

7.0.2

Nov 14, 2013

- Fixed the bug connected with Gallery for the French and German localizations- Improved the Star Spotter performance for the old devices

7.0.1

Nov 5, 2013

- Fixed crashes- Fixed comet ISON tracking

7.0

Oct 30, 2013

- Fully new flat interface according to iOS 7 design guidelines. - Impressive blur effect for all translucent elements and windows.- New more readable fonts.- Flat and simple icons to simplify UI.- The color of UI elements was slightly changed to make it more comfortable and easy to read. - Comet ISON tracking.

6.3

Sep 16, 2013

- iOS7 ready

6.2.1

May 15, 2013

My fellow Stargazer,

I think I might have made a couple mistakes in the code when I digressed in careless dreaming about distant galaxies. Ah, Andromeda Galaxy... In any case, if your app is behaving funny, feel free to download the update.

Fixed bugs:- Misinterpreting the Calendar dates for astronomical events in different Time Zones- Moon Phases for Sky Live window- Minor bugs fixing

Yours truly,Star walk developer.

6.2

Apr 11, 2013

My dearest Stargazer,

It's been awhile since we’ve talked, but I am happy to catch a moment and thank you for your letter. It was really kind of you to let me know that you are there and that you care. It almost made me feel like I was Santa in my own little way, making stargazing wishes come true. After careful consideration, I decided to fulfill the following wishes:

- Ultimate Calendar of the most important stargazing delights, it will tell you what’s up and even set an alarm- Comet tracking (Halley, ISON, PANSTARRS, and Lemmon)- Iridium flares- Constellation artwork on/off- Significant reduction in size

I know it's not much, but I'm hoping you will accept this as a small token of my gratitude and belief in future friendship. I have a lot more work to do, so I guess I better go get to it. And I am always happy to chat on Facebook and Twitter!

Best of stargazing, Touched Star Walk Developer

6.1.1

Feb 5, 2013

My Dear Fellow Stargazer,

This update will make your app not crash (if it did). I also added a 3D model of the Newton satellite and fixed the bug with the Arabic language.

I have thought a good deal about what to add to this magnificent app of ours and well, to tell you the truth, it appears as though Star Walk is perfect. My magnum opus is complete. What to do, what to do... If you have any idea what it is lacking please - I beg you - tell me. Because I really don’t know. I always read AppStore user reviews and letters in support@vitotechnology.com mailbox, not to mention Facebook and Twitter, where I spend way too much time.

Sincerely, Brooding Star Walk Developer.

6.1

Dec 12, 2012

Dear stargazer,

Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas! I heard you have been very good this year. I'm writing to let you know that I'll be stopping by your house on Christmas Eve while you are sleeping. Be sure to update Star Walk app and track my way! Hope you leave me a glass of milk and some cookies.

6.0.1

Sep 26, 2012

- iPhone 5 ready!- iOS 6 support- TelRad function- Bug fixes

6.0

Aug 28, 2012

- Amazing new visual effects- Completely rebuilt Info: New layout of the revised info displays short facts, new image gallery, overview note, orbital and physical characteristics, magnitude and elevation as well as planetary structure- New gallery for Picture of the Day: cleaner simpler layout with folders for pictures from ESA, ESO- New Sharing button

5.7.4

May 17, 2012

- New music by Astropilot- Corrected the info about the Sun- Fixed crashes connected with HIP catalog- Fixed the bug with info box while Star Spotter is activated- Unfortunately, HIP catalog is no longer available for devices older than iPhone 3Gs

5.7.2

Apr 20, 2012

Bug Fix:

- Time shift in SkyLive- Wrong positions of stars from HIP catalog- Crashes on zoom- Orientation change in Community during message window closing- Search on Server with non-latin letters- minor bugs

5.7.1

Apr 4, 2012

Version 5.7.1

- Added non-centric zoom in - The stars have been colored in their original colors according to the star catalogue- Minor bugs connected with stars visual magnitude- Fixed bugs connected with sounds and music- Fixed bugs for calendar events, PODs and bookmarks- Fixed night mode for some celestial objects

Do you like the update and expect more from us? Leave good reviews on the AppStore and let us know what features you miss in Star Walk. We’ll do our best to meet your expectations.

Star Walk Team

5.7

Mar 22, 2012

- New SkyLive with animation - New HIP Catalog with more than 170k stars- Bug fix

Do you like the update and expect more from us? Leave good reviews on the AppStore and let us know what features you miss in Star Walk. We’ll do our best to meet your expectations.

Star Walk Team

Jan 2, 2019

Version 7.3.1

Enjoy the latest version of Star Walk with:• updated astronomical calendar (a lot of celestial events for the year 2019 added)• full support for the newest Apple devices• minor bug fixes and performance improvements

Wishing you all the best for the coming year, with love and positive thoughts.

Gratefully yours,Vito Technology Team.

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5

16.1K Ratings

16.1K Ratings

hanotehu
,11/15/2017

Too difficult to read

Maybe it’s a bad setting or something but I find the data in the app very hard to read. When I first got the app several years ago it was fine but it keeps getting “prettier” and less useful. For one thing, object labels are missing if they are near the edge of the screen. As you get them closer to the center their labels show up as an unreadable gray. Finally, when they are almost in the center they are in a tiny but somewhat readable white font. Why aren’t they white all the time? If you’re using the app to try and find something you have to center the thing first. That’s hard to do if you don’t know where it is. Another hard thing to see is the horizon. It’s very subtly darker than the sky. Why not make it better defined? The planets are hard to find too. The pretty icons on the map can help but the red text is too dark against the black background. Things near the galactic equator are hard because the Milky Way image is much too bright. Finally, the new moon is shown as black. OK, it really is but if you’re trying to find it, good luck. If you center where this invisible object is, of course, then you may be able to spot the tiny white label. It would hurt the prettiness, I guess, but I’d love to see a white outline on it. Finally, this is the slowest app I have when I start it. It has pretty little animations of its name for a good 10 seconds. I didn’t get it for that. Basically it sacrifices utility for aesthetics.

Developer Response
,11/16/2017

Thank you for taking the time to write a review. There are a plenty of objects shown on the screen at the same time, if all of them was labeled, you wouldn't be able to read anything. So the stars are not labeled unless selected, but planets, satellites, meteor showers and the Sun and the Moon are labeled permanently, except the case when a satellite goes 2/3 off the screen area. Planets (the Moon as well) can be easily spotted if follow the ecliptic or with the search option (the magnifier in the lower left corner of the screen). Your remarks on the fonts color and size are greatly appreciated and will be taken into consideration. The launch time depends on your hardware solution, on A9 and higher cpu it takes about 2 seconds, on A8 – about 5 seconds.

hanotehu
,11/15/2017

Too difficult to read

Maybe it’s a bad setting or something but I find the data in the app very hard to read. When I first got the app several years ago it was fine but it keeps getting “prettier” and less useful. For one thing, object labels are missing if they are near the edge of the screen. As you get them closer to the center their labels show up as an unreadable gray. Finally, when they are almost in the center they are in a tiny but somewhat readable white font. Why aren’t they white all the time? If you’re using the app to try and find something you have to center the thing first. That’s hard to do if you don’t know where it is. Another hard thing to see is the horizon. It’s very subtly darker than the sky. Why not make it better defined? The planets are hard to find too. The pretty icons on the map can help but the red text is too dark against the black background. Things near the galactic equator are hard because the Milky Way image is much too bright. Finally, the new moon is shown as black. OK, it really is but if you’re trying to find it, good luck. If you center where this invisible object is, of course, then you may be able to spot the tiny white label. It would hurt the prettiness, I guess, but I’d love to see a white outline on it. Finally, this is the slowest app I have when I start it. It has pretty little animations of its name for a good 10 seconds. I didn’t get it for that. Basically it sacrifices utility for aesthetics.

Developer Response
,11/16/2017

Thank you for taking the time to write a review. There are a plenty of objects shown on the screen at the same time, if all of them was labeled, you wouldn't be able to read anything. So the stars are not labeled unless selected, but planets, satellites, meteor showers and the Sun and the Moon are labeled permanently, except the case when a satellite goes 2/3 off the screen area. Planets (the Moon as well) can be easily spotted if follow the ecliptic or with the search option (the magnifier in the lower left corner of the screen). Your remarks on the fonts color and size are greatly appreciated and will be taken into consideration. The launch time depends on your hardware solution, on A9 and higher cpu it takes about 2 seconds, on A8 – about 5 seconds.

Loriofpandora
,08/12/2018

So disappointed.

I have owned this app for years. Paid the full price for it, 9.99 (at the time really expensive... pretty pricy even now!) I used it seriously three or four times a year for the last 5 years planning camping trips to coincide with cool astronomy events like the total solar eclipse and all sorts of meteor showers. I loved it. Raved about it to my friends. Even showed it off to my dad. It is a part of my start screen and I pulled it out every camping trip.

Imagine my disappointment, upon opening it so it can enhance my viewing of the perseid meteor shower, which I am camping for, right now, this very evening and none of the previously available features are available to me unless I pony up MORE money for a subscription service. I am really upset.

Farewell, Star Walk. You were a beautifully designed and useful app once. I’m sure you still are beautiful...You enhanced my love for the stars. I guess my wallet is just not large enough to follow you down that subscription rabbit hole. I am so sad.

Developer Response
,09/06/2018

We are awfully sorry for that. Please contact our support team from the app menu and tell them about your problem. You do not have to pay for the app twice if it has already been purchased before. We hope that this situation will be resolved and you will continue enjoying the app. Thank you for being our user.

Loriofpandora
,08/12/2018

So disappointed.

I have owned this app for years. Paid the full price for it, 9.99 (at the time really expensive... pretty pricy even now!) I used it seriously three or four times a year for the last 5 years planning camping trips to coincide with cool astronomy events like the total solar eclipse and all sorts of meteor showers. I loved it. Raved about it to my friends. Even showed it off to my dad. It is a part of my start screen and I pulled it out every camping trip.

Imagine my disappointment, upon opening it so it can enhance my viewing of the perseid meteor shower, which I am camping for, right now, this very evening and none of the previously available features are available to me unless I pony up MORE money for a subscription service. I am really upset.

Farewell, Star Walk. You were a beautifully designed and useful app once. I’m sure you still are beautiful...You enhanced my love for the stars. I guess my wallet is just not large enough to follow you down that subscription rabbit hole. I am so sad.

Developer Response
,09/06/2018

We are awfully sorry for that. Please contact our support team from the app menu and tell them about your problem. You do not have to pay for the app twice if it has already been purchased before. We hope that this situation will be resolved and you will continue enjoying the app. Thank you for being our user.

Rip Roaring Raft Guide
,07/31/2017

5yrs later and I still love this app

My favorite part is if you get to far out with no service (always the best stars) IT STILL WORKS! We camp for 2wks every summer up in the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming and there is no hope of service until off of them, but this app is a camping party favorite EVERY year not to mention It is all I ever wanted growing up! As a teen I saved my mowing money for a cordless phone (pre-cellphone era) and would lay in our pasture for hours and hours all summer long with my glow in the dark constellation coffee table book and Gf on the phone, now I can just hold up my phone and know my stellar address, neighbors and man made junk, I will never look at the stars the same 10/10

Developer Response
,01/23/2018

Thank you for taking the time to share your positive experience with our app!

Rip Roaring Raft Guide
,07/31/2017

5yrs later and I still love this app

My favorite part is if you get to far out with no service (always the best stars) IT STILL WORKS! We camp for 2wks every summer up in the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming and there is no hope of service until off of them, but this app is a camping party favorite EVERY year not to mention It is all I ever wanted growing up! As a teen I saved my mowing money for a cordless phone (pre-cellphone era) and would lay in our pasture for hours and hours all summer long with my glow in the dark constellation coffee table book and Gf on the phone, now I can just hold up my phone and know my stellar address, neighbors and man made junk, I will never look at the stars the same 10/10

Developer Response
,01/23/2018

Thank you for taking the time to share your positive experience with our app!